Backup ROM, how important?

As always reminded to you when flashing mods or ROMs, you are the only one responsible for anything you have done on your android device. Tweaking a stock android software corresponds the risk from which you are the only one to decide whether to take the risk and continue or not.

For a knowledgeable android user, taking risk is normal. Why? Because they have already prepared for anything worst to happen, they could easily fix anything and redo the process. As long as the user prepared a ROM backup of his own device, he can fix most any android issues and problems that may possibly occur on his device after making some changes or tweaking it.

How to backup ROM and restore it? Thanks to ClockworkMod (CWM) recovery

I highly recommend all android users who wants to tweak and mod their android devices especially their handy smartphones. Thanks to the developer of ClockworkMod recovery, most users enjoy a lots of modifications on their devices having less worries.

Now, I am inspired to share the easiest and the mostly-used method of creating a backup ROM, how to do it and restore it on any circumstances. Follow the guides below:

5. Wait until the device is done backing up, it will state Restore complete or something like that.

6. Done. Reboot normally.

I hope this helps and will reduce your worries when flashing something and trying out mods.

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my phone is bricked and it has cwm. I tried copying another phone's cwm backup but it only worsened it. I'm guessing its because the other phone can't Mount cache or something. please help me out. I even tried installing custom ROM but now its just restarting. :(

If you can still boot on CWM, try to restore the backup you have made. If it can't boot normally, boot to CWM once again and go to mounts them mount the system and then format it. Go back and wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache and wipe dalvic cache, fix permission. Now reboot.

I have that tutorial on my separate article. You can try searching it here. Well, you need it unzipped or extract the backup and process it for sp flash tool so you can restore it through the flash tool.

I had made backup of my stock before installing new rom but that rom created some problem so now i want to restore my previous rom but when i m trying to restore through cwm.. it show me msg that MD5 is mismatch..wht should i doplz somebody guide me

Hello ! I really need your help .. When I flashed a Ported ROM into my device using CWM Recovery, I accidentally deleted the Back Up of my Stock ROM .. Now I can't go back to the Original ROM of my device .. How can I get my device back to its original ROM ?? please help me .. I really need a response .. please .

Please clarify in your tutorial if the backup made includes all the apps and app data and app settings? Does it include email settings? Does it include "settings" settings like what apps can use mobile data and my display settings? Does it include all the files in the "storage" of the phone like my music and ringtones and pictures?

I accidentally soft-bricked my phone once already because I changed the bootanimation and it got stuck in boot-loop... so I had to start completely from scratch with a stock rom. I have finally gotten all my apps and things back the way I like them. Now I am fearful of starting over again and want to be sure I have absolutely 100% everything backed up to the exact way I like it before I do anything else.

Sure appreciate your help and thank you for taking the time to write a great tutorial!